Hi BlazerFS23; Welcome to the club. If you trawl through this site you will find you are young but there are many who were younger than you when they first showed signes of the disease.

I first developed the disease in my early teens and by the time I was your age I had it well developed in both hand and both feet. I am now 63 and have just returned home from a 1.5hr gym session. I play tennis 3 times a week, I use the gym 5-6 times per week for cardio and weight work, my wife and go on a cycling tour for 4-5 days every year and we walk a lot. All that simply to tell you that dupuytrens does need to restrict what you do. I treat it as an inconvenience and friends joke about my weird handshake.

You haven't said much about you symptoms but am assuming that they are not significant at this stage so a word of caution. Surgery should be treated as a last resort not you first port of call. You say you have seen two Orthopedic surgeons. Remember that they are surgeons and they do surgery. There are other treatments that are effective.

For my part I have had surgery on one foot before I knew any better and the result was that the LD came back almost immediately, twice the size, in the same place. I have also had surgery on one hand 35 years ago before other options came available. Since then I have had NA 8-10 times. I am having NA done again next month while on a trip to Paris.

Surgeons will tell you that with NA the disease comes back quicker than it does after surgery. That is true but surgery is a big deal while NA is like going to the dentist. I am booked in for NA at 1pm and by 2pm I expect to be siting on a Paris sidewalk with a glass of wine.

Good luck but go slow with treatment. This can be a slow progressing disease and you might not need any treatment for years.

Thanks for the info, all! My main symptoms are some pain when I put pressure on the nodule and a severe decrease in grip strength in my affected hand. The grip has already had a pretty serious impact on my job, which is why I'm so concerned about how this will progress.